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Collection
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Place of origin
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Date

Rocket locomotive

1829

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

1826

model steam locomotive

1826

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model locomotion no 1

1825

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

1825

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Lancets in silver case

1826

Engraved lancet case

1826

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Sans Pareil

1829

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Achromatic Microscope made for J J Lister

1826

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

1824-1884, scientific instrument maker, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Scottish; British

White, James

1824 - 1884

A plan and section of the railway from Liverpool to Manchester, in the county palatine of Lancaster

1829

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Henry Kingsford of Canterbury & Whitstable Railway dated 12 June 1830

1830-06-12

A peepshow, entitled, 'Optique No.6: Pont Sous La Tamise'

1825-1830

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Henry Bell

1826

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Observations on a General Iron Rail-way or Land Steam-Conveyance

1825

Phrenological head of Brazilian tribesman, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1826

1826

Print showing Gurney's steam carriage on Highgate Hill

1828

'Rocket', 'Novelty' and 'Sans Pareil' at the Rainhill Trials

1829